Waterbury-Oxford Airport

About Waterbury-Oxford Airport

Waterbury – Oxford Airport (KOXC) is a public use, publicly owned GA airport on 424 acres located approximately seven miles from the City of Waterbury in New Haven County, in the Town of Oxford. A small northern portion of the airport is located within the Town of Middlebury. The airport is designated as a National GA Airport in the FAA’s National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS). The airport’s primary role is to serve general aviation corporate, business and recreational flight operations. Notably, the airport contains the highest concentration of GA activity in Connecticut, and there is a State designated Airport Development Zone surrounding the airport for business development opportunities.

The airport consists of a single 5,800 foot long asphalt runway and supporting infrastructure that includes a full parallel taxiway, aircraft parking aprons, an instrument landing system, air traffic control tower, weather station, vehicle parking, and numerous airport tenant facilities. FAA contract tower operating hours are 6 am to 9 pm daily.

A full range of FBO aviation business services are available including concierge, fueling, ground support, aircraft repair, avionics and flight school training. Other business service offerings are in-flight catering, T-hangar and large aircraft storage, aviation insurance, corporate aircraft management, sales, rental, and interior refurbishment, car rental, and an on-airport restaurant. A Level 2 Electric Vehicle Charging Station is available 24 hours daily in the parking lot adjacent to 288 Christian Street. Charging is free to the public.

Airport History

Waterbury – Oxford Airport is centrally located in Connecticut in the town of Oxford and approximately seven miles southwest of the city of Waterbury. It opened for public use in December 15, 1969. Before that, the airport was owned by a private pilot who made his hobby of flying a business. He owned a collection of single engine planes; then eventually sold the airport to the State of Connecticut in the late ‘60s. Since then, the number of based aircraft has increased so that it is now home to the highest count of aircraft in a single general aviation airport in the state. Effective July 1, 2013, FAA approved transfer of the State’s six airports, including Waterbury-Oxford Airport, from the Connecticut Department of Transportation to the Connecticut Airport Authority.